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Legislative Budget Board (LBB) officials meet TODAY to set the growth spending limit for the 2020-2021 state budget.
Article VIII, Section 22, of the Texas Constitution limits spending of state tax revenue not dedicated by the Constitution to the estimated rate

We hear plenty from elected leaders about Texas being a “low-tax state,” but we are actually a high-tax state for many families. By setting up a tax system that puts financial strain on lower-income Texans, state leaders are in effect

State budget decisions shape the Texas we live in today and pass on to future generations, and the 2020-2021 budget cycle is already underway even though the Legislature won’t gavel in until January.
Agencies have submitted their budget requests, and

This commentary was originally published in The Quorum Report on August 30, 2018.
This week Governor Abbott made a case for boosting state funding to our public schools. We agree that money matters in education,

This week Comptroller Glenn Hegar announced that the revenue side of the 2018-2019 state budget – how much money Texas could spend on things – is much stronger than he predicted back in October 2017. More revenue is definitely good

And they’re off!
On June 22, the lengthy and critically important process for crafting the 2020-2021 state budget officially launched with the release of budget instructions to the leaders of Texas public agencies and higher education institutions.
Those of us wondering

High-quality public education and college opportunities for our kids. Health care for our families. The highways we rely on to get from place to place.
All of these critically important things and more rely on the Texas budget. Since our Legislature

Lawmakers at the Capitol have been pushing an extremely dangerous idea for some time now that would replace property taxes with higher sales taxes in our state. This would give Texas the highest sales tax rate in the country, hurt

The tax bill currently making its way through Congress would make it more difficult for Texas and our local governments to provide the public services that we all need.
Under current law, you do not have to pay federal taxes on

Last week the U.S. Senate passed its dangerous tax bill, which is about as bad as the one the U.S. House of Representatives approved in mid-November. Both would give hundreds of billions of dollars in tax cuts